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Hardly an eye was batted this week when the NDP Opposition raised in question period a recent order-in-council authorizing cabinet to borrow a whopping $6 billion. In some ways, such borrowing is business as usual. In the Byzantine world of government financing, cabinet authorization to borrow sums of $2 billion or $3 billion to deal with public […]

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Joie Warnock In Aesop’s Fables, there is a clever story about shortsighted greed that destroys the profitability of an asset. Saskatchewan’s premier would be wise to reflect on the moral wisdom of the fable about the goose that lays golden eggs. If you listen to Brad Wall, the provincial deficit he has racked up (during […]

Some 70,000 Access Communications customers and a handful of those with SaskTel had cable and other services interrupted Sunday and Monday because of an issue with the Anik F2 communications satellite. The satellite provides direct-to-home television, telephone service and Internet across Canada and the United States. The problem began at approximately 3 p.m. Sunday but was […]

"While the potential loss of head office jobs and the loss of dividends to the province are important to Regina and the provincial treasury, the high probability of significant price increases will affect every consumer of communication devices in the province on an ongoing basis."

Alvina Forsberg of Regina writes: There has been much talk in the media regarding the possible sale of SaskTel. In my opinion, privatization would be a bad decision. I am a retiree from Sask-Tel. I spent more than 25 years with this great Crown corporation and saw how the technology progressed over the years and how […]

Gillian Harding-Russell of Regina writes: I am bemused by Todd MacKay’s article concerning the need for a referendum regarding the sale of SaskTel and that a “hard talk” was a “healthy one” (Sept. 6 Opinion page). MacKay goes on to suggest that Brad Wall is “outlining the right way to discuss selling SaskTel,” and at the […]

Dave Morgan of Regina writes: I regard the salaries paid to senior executives at Saskatchewan’s four main Crown corporations as outrageous, particularly in light of recently announced cuts to provincial social assistance supplement programs. In a hard-hearted effort to save taxpayers’ money, our deficit-plagued government has recently announced that 2,700 of our most vulnerable residents will […]

Mitri I. Musleh of Regina writes: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is contemplating selling SaskTel. In the process, he is saying the revenues of a sale could get the province out of its $4.1-billion operating debt and help stop its financial bleeding. The premier also stated that the government will not sell the profitable Crown corporation without […]

Larry Hubich, president of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, writes: There has been lots of talk about SaskTel; I am happy to engage in that discussion. Saskatchewan has a history of doing things ourselves so that everyone benefits — like when we built strong, profitable Crowns such as SaskTel. SaskTel’s low-cost, highquality services are the envy of Canada. […]

So, after years of trying to prove he wasn’t ideologically bent on privatizing major Saskatchewan Crown corporations, Premier Brad Wall is now hell-bent on selling SaskTel for an unfathomable price to deal with a debt he’s insisted is manageable? Let that one sink in for a minute. And if you are still of the mind […]

There is no For Sale sign on top of SaskTel’s head office building in Regina. And, if the government is to believed, there is no offer to buy the Crown corporation. A spokeswoman for SaskTel said Thursday that it “will not be commenting on a potential sale.” Yet, there is already a group formed with […]

"If we get an offer and we think it’s one that generates a significant amount of money for the province, maybe enough to eliminate our operating debt, if it takes care of the jobs question in Regina, if it provides the opportunity for better coverage, we’re at least going to take it to the people," said Brad Wall.

Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations have released their annual payee disclosure report — basically, a list of who gets paid what in the Crowns as wages, fees and sponsorships. This list covers employees who received more than $50,000 in compensation, suppliers that got more than $50,000 for goods and services, and a combined category of grants, contributions, donations […]

As they sit around their dining table in late July, the Brescianis have school on the brain. It’s not just because they’re being asked about their teaching history. It’s because, with a combined teaching experience of almost 70 years, you’d be hard pressed to catch this family of four not thinking about their life’s work.

Many things have changed since Jamie Schneider won the 1999 Saskatchewan men’s curling championship. The veteran skip has matured since guiding his all-brother team — also consisting of Rick, Mike and Larry from Kronau — to its only provincial men’s championship.

Two days following an explosion that rocked Regina Beach, things in town were slowly getting back to normal. At Memorial Hall, the emergency command centre was a busy place, serving as the information hub in the town where phones remained out of service on Friday.

Students from St. Pius X School gathered together with SaskTel and the University of Regina Faculty of Education to pack a container of supplies for the African nation of Malawi, including hospital beds, text books and more on Thursday, March 27. The project, filling an industrial 40-foot shipping container, included donations from SIAST, the Regina Catholic School Division, the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region and the Ministry of Health. The donations will support a number of schools in Malawi, as well as the school of nursing and a local hospital.

As Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall met with New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant on the Energy East Pipeline Friday, a term as unexpected as the pairing of a conservative prairie boy and a Liberal Maritimer popped up: “nation building.” The very term would seem to represent a quaint, old ideal more applicable to the pages of […]

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